Lessons in Love and Other Crimes

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By Elizabeth Chakrabarty

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Lessons in Love and Other Crimes by Elizabeth Chakrabarty interweaves a gripping narrative where personal relationships are tested amidst the backdrop of racial tensions and societal challenges. The story reveals how the complexities of identity and love intertwine with crime, as characters navigate through emotionally charged situations. It captures the intersection of personal and societal dilemmas, offering a poignant exploration of both human connection and the impact of external adversities.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate stories that weave together themes of love, identity, and cultural tensions with a touch of crime. This thought-provoking narrative artfully explores personal and societal challenges, making it a compelling read for fans of rich, character-driven fiction.

Lessons in Love and Other Crimes

Inspired by the author’s personal experiences of hate crime and bookended with essays which contextualise the story within a lifetime of microaggressions, Lessons in Love and Other Crimes is a heart-breaking, hopeful, and compulsively readable novel about the most quotidian of crimes.

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Tesya has reasons to feel hopeful after leaving her last job, where she was subjected to a series of anonymous hate crimes. Now she is back home in London to start a new lecturing position, and has begun an exciting, if tumultuous, love affair with the enigmatic Holly. But this idyllic new start quickly sours.

Tesya finds herself victimised again at work by an unknown assailant, who subjects her to an insidious, sustained race hate crime. As her paranoia mounts, Tesya finds herself yearning for the most elemental of desires: love, acceptance, and sanctuary. Her assailant, meanwhile, is recording his manifesto and plotting his next steps.

Inspired by the author's personal experiences of hate crime and bookended with essays which contextualise the story within a lifetime of microaggressions, Lessons in Love and Other Crimes is a heartbreaking, hopeful, and compulsively readable novel about the most quotidian of crimes.

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Lessons in Love and Other Crimes by Elizabeth Chakrabarty has been praised for its layered storytelling and poignant exploration of race crimes. It combines elements of romance and crime investigation in a unique manner, offering thought-provoking commentary on racism. Reviewers describe it as compelling and intimate, with prose that does not shy away from stark realities, making it unforgettable and deeply impactful.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781911648222

Publisher: The Indigo Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 April 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The Indigo Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 259g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Elizabeth Chakrabarty is an interdisciplinary artist who uses creative and critical writing, besides performance, to explore themes of race, gender and sexuality. Her story Eurovision was short-listed for the Asian Writer Short Story Prize, published in Dividing Lines (Dahlia Publishing, 2017).

Her shorter creative-critical work has appeared in English and in translation in New Writing Dundee, Women and the Arts, Glänta, and Espace Lesbien Rencontres et Revue d’Etudes Lesbiennes. She is a contributor to the anthology edited by Kirsty Gunn, Imagined Spaces, published in 2020 (Saraband). She lives in London.